November 03, 2020

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[Quick look] XIDU – affordable laptop line-up with some good surprises

With every passing day, we hear of new innovative brands in the tech space that want to disrupt the market and carve a niche for themselves and XIDU is no different from them. Designed and…

October 04, 2017

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Intel Core i7-8550U vs Core i7-7700HQ – the performance is Watt matters!

A few days back we got a hold of a final unit of the new Intel Core i7-8550U that over-exceeded the expectations we had from the pre-production unit. It rocked in every benchmark despite the low…

September 30, 2017

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Intel Core i5-8250U vs Core i7-8550U – Core i5 vs i7 – a never-ending dispute

By far the only chips released under Intel’s 8th gen branding are the Kaby Lake Refresh ULV processors. As the name suggests, they are based on the same architecture, however, a bit tweaked. Both the Core…

September 29, 2017

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The new Intel Core i7-8550U is twice as fast as the Core i7-7500U!

We’ve shared some news about the Intel Core i7-8550U before and even at that time, we were really happy with the results. It seemed that the new Kaby Lake Refresh Core i7 ULV chip will be…

September 29, 2017

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Intel Core i5-8250U vs Core i5-7300HQ – 8th gen ULV vs 7th gen HQ

Although the Intel Core i5-8250U is barely available on the market, it seems to strike quite a lot of attention and performance seems quite promising. We compared the chip to its direct predecessor the Core…

September 27, 2017

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Intel Core i5-8250U vs Core i5-7200U – two generations collide

Intel’s 8th generation is live and it is currently represented on the market by a few models equipped with the Kaby Lake Refresh chips. One such chip is the Core i5-8250U that we commented a few…

August 21, 2017

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Intel launches 8th generation – Refreshed Kaby Lake, 14nm Coffee Lake and 10nm Cannonlake all under one brand

Today Intel officially unveiled its 8th generation processors. It appears that the Core i5-8250U and other chips that we got a hold of before are actually a part of the Refreshed Kaby Lake series. The…

July 14, 2017

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Intel Core i5-7300HQ vs Intel Core i7-7700HQ – which one is better for gaming and for work?

When it comes to gaming notebooks, the most popular processors used are the Intel Core i5-7300HQ and the Core i7-7700HQ. They are beloved by manufacturers for the good performance and efficiency of the latest 7th Kaby Lake generation.…

July 10, 2017

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Yet another few new Intel mobile SoCs – i3-7007U, i3-7110U, i5-7210U, i7-7510U

Even though we are expecting the release of Intel’s eight generation processors sometime this Fall, the company seem to be expanding its range of Kaby Lake SoCs. A few days back two new mobile chips were…

July 04, 2017

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Two new mobile chips – the Core i3-7130U and Pentium 4415Y are now available

Two new low-end mobile CPUs are now available from Intel. These are the Core i3-7130U and Pentium 4415Y which both small upgrades over their predecessors – the Core i3-7100U and Pentium 4410Y. Both models are based on the same…

June 26, 2017

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Serious Intel Skylake and Kaby Lake microcode bug has surfaced

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh unveiled a serious problem that may occur if you are using an Intel Skylake or Kaby Lake processors with Hyper-Threading.  You can read his full article and advisory on the Debian…

June 06, 2017

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Apple refreshes its laptops with Kaby Lake processors

Yesterday was WWDC and one of the announcements that Apple made was that it will refresh its notebooks lineup with the latest 7th generation Intel Kaby Lake processors. First of all, the 12-inch MacBook will also…

May 24, 2017

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Microsoft unveils the new Surface Pro: Kaby Lake, 50% better battery life, improved thermals

You can check the various Microsoft Surface models and their availability here Adhering to the age-old adage of don’t fix what isn’t broken, Microsoft has kicked it off in Shanghai by releasing the successor to…

May 22, 2017

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Surface Pro 4 refresh to be unveiled today!

Microsoft’s Surface lineup is about to receive its latest addition, according to our most recent leaks. There’s more, however, both to the good and the bad. First of all, the good. The announcement of the…

March 06, 2017

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Prices of Intel’s processors drop trying to withstand Ryzen’s push [UK]

The new AMD Ryzen processors released last week. This is the first new architecture we see from AMD in the last six years. It brings amazing performance especially in multithreaded processes for about half the…

February 08, 2017

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Intel with two new processors to compete against AMD Ryzen

It seems that 2017 will be an interesting year when it comes to the consumer market for processors. The two major players in this field – AMD and Intel will take their competition to a…

January 21, 2017

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PC Gaming Hardware Market surpasses the $30 billion mark – 43% goes to high-end users

Jon Peddie Research group has released some interesting information to the public. It appears that the PC gaming hardware market has breached the $30 billion mark for the first time in history. The hardware market…

January 11, 2017

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All 7th Gen Intel Core (Kaby Lake) processors in one chart – detailed specs and prices

Without a doubt, Intel holds the crown of the CPU market both on mobile and desktop computers and now their latest generation of products is out and adoption rates are getting higher and higher. Kaby Lake…

January 07, 2017

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Intel’s Compute Card is a Kaby Lake powered PC with the size of a credit card

In the past few days, we saw all sorts of amazing tech at the CES convention, but what is Intel up to? Apparently, the technological giant has been developing a mobile computer of its own,…

January 06, 2017

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MSI refreshes its gaming lineup with Intel’s latest processors and other treats

Most manufacturers tend to upgrade their products every year. As long as some new line of CPUs or GPUs come out they implement the new technology as fast as possible. Now Intel’s Kaby Lake CPUs…